Paul van Geest is both full professor of church history and history of theology at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and full professor of theology and economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also an editor of Brill's Encyclopedia of Early Christianity.
Working in pastoral care in Rotterdam-Ommoord, I once visited a woman originally from Cape Verde. She was the mother of twins. Due to circumstances, she had given the children up. Meanwhile, she had…
